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Former SBS scriptwriting director Julie Eckersley has joined Screen Queensland in a new role as executive director of screen content. Eckersley left the public broadcaster last year after her contract ended. During her tenure, she commissioned the dramas Safe Home, Men Away, Erotic Stories, Swift Street, and Four Years Later, while overseeing commissions from the Digital Originals Initiative. Before joining SBS in 2021, she held roles across various elements of production, including almost a decade at Matchbox Pictures. Mr Eckersley, who was named Commissioner of the Year at the 2023 Australian Film Producers Awards, said he was excited to return…
Director Christopher Nolan fully supported Dwayne Johnson’s role in Smashing Machines, calling the performance “heartbreaking” and one of the best of the year. Despite the film’s poor performance at the box office, it received massive support. Director Nolan’s review: “Incredible acting” Nolan didn’t mention Johnson’s portrayal of MMA legend Mark Carr during an interview with Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie on the Director’s Cut podcast. Director Nolan said, “I think it was a great performance.” “I don’t think we’ll see a better performance this year or any other year.” Oppenheimer and the Inception filmmakers also praised Safdie’s film itself, saying,…
Australia: Prime Video’s big lineup for November 2025 has been announced. The full schedule is below, including trailers where available. In the action comedy Playdate (Nov. 12), Alan Ritchson and Kevin James play two fathers whose afternoons of small talk and backyard soccer turn into a full-on survival mission with mercenaries. Critical Role fans are in for something special. The animated series The Mighty Nine (Nov. 19) takes place 20 years after the events of Legend of Vox Machina and follows a group of outcasts forced to work together when a dangerous artifact threatens to unravel reality itself. There’s also…
Disney Lorcana is once again nearing the beginning of an all-new set! Whispers In The Well will be the tenth Disney Lorcana set released for TCG fans, bringing new mysteries to solve and a whole new bunch of cards to collect and play. We now have the privilege of showing you one of those new cards. So, welcome to “Whispers In The Well”… Please go! is the new Amethyst action card coming to the latest Disney Lorcana set. With an ink cost of 3 and the ability to “return selected characters, items, or locations that cost 3 or less to…
Prime Video has confirmed that the Australian version of The Office will end after one season and the comedy series will not be renewed. The decision comes 12 months after the series premiered on the streamer, making it the 13th global adaptation of the British comedy series and the first with a female lead character. Co-produced by BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand, Bunya Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios, The Office Australia stars Felicity Ward as Hannah Howard, managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she heard the news from corporate headquarters that they were closing branches and having…
Netflix has released the official trailer for Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2, the next round of the streaming giant’s competition show based on the hit Korean series. 456 brand new players, $4.56 million in pots. Watch the trailer above and read the gist. The game is reset with a fresh look and sharper social calculations. Strategy first, friendship second: A father-daughter duo prepares for an emotional breakup. One of the contestants announced that his girlfriend was pregnant, leading to applause, but he later told the camera, “This baby doesn’t exist.” Two dull lines express the atmosphere. “Loyalty can get…
Walton Goggins (Fallout, The Hateful Eight) has signed on to star opposite Amber Midthunder (Prey, Novocaine) in the action thriller Painter, which has been acquired by 20th Century Studios and is executive produced by James Cameron. The project is from John Wick creator Derek Kolstad, with longtime stunt coordinator Garrett Warren set to direct in his feature debut. story Painter follows a young woman who has been trained since childhood and must use all her skills to save her father who has been kidnapped. Midthunder, who led 20th Century’s 2022 Predator film Prey, will play the daughter, while Goggins will…
Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”) and Rachel Brosnahan (“Superman”) are teaming up for “Prism,” a supernatural thriller in development at Netflix. Brown plays Cassie, a woman who can talk to the dead and struggles to figure out why “visitors” (ghosts) suddenly appear around the world. Big hooks, big canvases, and lots of spooky possibilities. Prism is an adaptation of Nick Shafir’s Assemble Originals short story (first published in Assemble Artifacts). The series focuses on Cassie’s search for the cause of a worldwide haunting, a mystery posed at the intersection of science fiction, horror, and human grief. Think less squeaky floorboards…
The official trailer for The Keeper, the latest film from horror filmmaker Osgood Perkins (Long Legs, The Monkey), has arrived. After releasing two critically acclaimed genre works in just one year, Perkins is back with another spooky descent. Watch the trailer above and read the gist. Huts, Couples, and Uneasy Shifts Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black, Monkey) and Rosif Sutherland (Possessed) star as Liz and Malcolm, a couple celebrating their anniversary in a secluded cabin. When Malcolm unexpectedly returns to town, the trip takes a turn for the worse, leaving Liz alone to face whatever’s lurking in the house. As isolation…
The official US trailer for The Secret Agent, the award-winning political thriller directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Bacurau), has arrived. The film, which just opened at Cannes, where Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) won Best Actor and Filho won Best Director, has serious momentum. Watch the trailer above and read the gist. A story set in Brazil’s turbulent past The film returns to 1977 Brazil, which was in the midst of a military dictatorship. Moura plays Marcelo, a widower and fugitive tech expert who arrives in Recife during Carnival week hoping to reunite with his son. Festivities are on…